The tone here worries me. I see a return to conditions which the folks at the POA spent so many newspaper columns condemning a while back!
My last visit to an ER in St. Louis ended up taking over 8 hours from arrival to hospital admittance. The largest and most widely-respected hospital in a city with many, many facilities. I was absolutely appalled and at my wit's end; but, in the end, my wife received superb care.
As I personally believe she would have had here, had she even been here to accompany me to TV!
SWR